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Continence Deepens Personal Communion................................................................ 317 Christian Spirituality of Marriage Possible Only by Living According to the Spirit ......................................................................................................................................... 319 Respect for the Work of God ....................................................................................... 321 Conclusion to the Series on the Redemption of the Body and Sacramentality of Marriage ........................................................................................................................ 323 6
The Unity and Indissolubility of Marriage 1 For some time now preparations have been going on for the next ordinary assembly of the Synod of Bishops, which will take place in Rome in autumn of next year. The theme of the Synod, "The role of the Christian family," concentrates our attention on this community of human and Christian life, which has been fundamental from the beginning. The Lord Jesus used precisely this expression "from the beginning" in the talk about marriage, reported in the Gospels of St. Matthew and St. Mark. We wish to raise the question what this word "beginning" means. We also wish to clarify why Christ referred to the "beginning" on that occasion and, therefore, we propose a more precise analysis of the relative text of Holy Scripture. During the talk with the Pharisees, who asked him the question about the indissolubility of marriage, Jesus Christ referred twice to the "beginning." The talk took place in the following way: "And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, 'Is it lawful to divorce one's wife for any cause?' He answered, 'Have you not read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, 'For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh'? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man put asunder.' They said to him, 'Why then did Moses command one to give a certificate of divorce, and to put her away?' He said to them, 'For your hardness of heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so"' (Mt 19:3ff., cf. also Mk 10:2ff.). Christ did not accept the discussion at the level at which his interlocutors tried to introduce it. In a certain sense he did not approve of the dimension that they tried to give the problem. He avoided getting caught up in juridico-casuistical controversies. On the contrary, he referred twice to "the beginning." Acting in this way, he made a clear reference to the relative words in Genesis, which his interlocutors too knew by heart. From those words of the ancient revelation, Christ drew the conclusion and the talk ended. Therefore, "the beginning" means that which Genesis speaks about. Christ quoted Genesis 1:27 in summary form: "In the beginning the Creator made them male and female." The original passage reads textually as follows: "God created man in his own image; in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them." Subsequently, the Master referred to Genesis 2:24: "Therefore, a man leaves his father and his mother and cleaves to his wife, and they become one flesh." Quoting these words almost in full, Christ gave them an even more explicit normative meaning (since it could be supported that in Genesis they express de facto statements: "leaves...cleaves...they become one flesh"). The normative meaning is plausible since Christ did not confine 1 September 5, 1979 7
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Page 3 and 4: CONTENTS The Unity and Indissolubil
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Page 9 and 10: and Mark 10, constitute a passage w
Page 11 and 12: the first chapter of Genesis. Today
Page 13 and 14: When Christ referred to the "beginn
Page 15 and 16: It seems that the words of Romans 8
Page 17 and 18: Nevertheless, the fact of not being
Page 19 and 20: At the beginning of the Yahwist tex
Page 21 and 22: y the Creator, together with the tr
Page 23 and 24: dimension of man's subconscious. If
Page 25 and 26: In the first chapter, the narrative
Page 27 and 28: man. "' In the light of this text,
Page 29 and 30: made hitherto of the meaning of the
Page 31 and 32: know that they were naked," or that
Page 33 and 34: human experience. At the same time
Page 35 and 36: saw what he had made, and behold, i
Page 37 and 38: There is a deep connection between
Page 39 and 40: man is the only creature in the vis
Page 41 and 42: happiness. This nuptial meaning is
Page 43 and 44: He tries to understand original inn
Page 45 and 46: soul, femininity and masculinity, w
Page 47 and 48: Undertaking the analysis of the beg
Page 49 and 50: meaning of their bodies, in which t
Page 51 and 52: This authorizes us to pass, after t
Page 53 and 54: According to Genesis 4:1, the man "
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The sentence: "Adam knew his wife,
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that there is no way of constructin
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Christ Appeals to Man's Heart 24 1.
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Interior justice 4. In addition to
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dimension of humanity with which th
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2. The lust of the flesh and, toget
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Real Significance of Original Naked
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The words of Genesis 3:10, "I was a
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same way, with equal simplicity and
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Having facilitated an extraordinary
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turns to the woman and speaks first
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contain an adequate clarification a
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Linked with Sermon on the Mount 6.
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the lust of the body in particular
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and in other biblical texts. 45 In
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man, who has become the man of lust
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2. Those who follow the history of
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ight of cohabitation with the slave
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analogy also helps to understand th
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choice is outlined in the following
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committed in the body, in what sens
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6. For such transformation it is ne
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4. Christ, therefore, does not desc
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even though Matthew's words in 5:27
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3. Only then—that is from that su
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the prohibition, "Do not covet your
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derived from the failure to observe
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consider in what way the commandmen
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3. It is possible to answer the afo
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the body contained in Christ's teac
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sufficiently appreciated. As we kno
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the basis of this mystery, which St
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Connotation of the term "eros" 2. A
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Mount, with which he referred to th
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Christ Calls Us to Rediscover the L
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that is, the mysterious reality of
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Purity in the moral sense 3. In rel
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What the Spirit wants 2. This man l
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Without penetrating the structures
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To set us free 5. To complete the p
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linked with life according to the S
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at the same time, the control of on
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Not "scientific" 3. The Pauline des
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We have no doubt that the descripti
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One with the Lord 5. In chapter six
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following prayer to obtain purity i
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previous analyses, which gradually
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The words spoken by Christ in the S
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pronouncements of the Church aim at
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creative activity, a work of art, a
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giving of one party meets the appro
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are inscribed in this femininity an
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is, as a subject, uprooted from its
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time he communicates with the truth
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Gospels (cf. Mt 22:24-30; Mk 12:18-
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1. "You are wrong, because you know
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physical death has become man's lot
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keep their masculine or feminine pe
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eyond this possibility. It is there
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that more perfect communion—becau
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experience of the body on the basis
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eginning nor from what, in the hist
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3. Here we are on the same line as
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the presence of the mystery of rede
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5. All the antitheses that are sugg
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Just as one speaks of the resurrect
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kingdom of heaven. In saying this,
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voluntary, because those pertaining
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Continence for the Sake of the King
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them. It was hidden from them as it
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declared then that a man makes hims
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it in the full meaning of life and
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2. In this light a deeper clarifica
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Temporal establishment 2. The Kingd
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continence in the perspective of th
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eginning that obliges us to do this
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The form in which the call to conti
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elationship between marriage and ce
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modify it as well: "Now concerning
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world, to everything that is to be
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aware that by encouraging abstinenc
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oth the one and the other way of li
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fact was subjected to futility" (Ro
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duties and difficulties of human li
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of the Letter to the Ephesians, how
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summons to overcome vices and to ac
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Christ to be the adoptive sons of G
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This relationship is a revelation a
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edemption of the body conceals with
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word, that he might present the Chu
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the Bridegroom who "has loved the C
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Christ's Redemptive Love Has Spousa
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for her. By the same act he is unit
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of the Letter to the Ephesians (5:2
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motive of the "love of compassion."
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especially of Isaiah) remains prese
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5. The foregoing seems to be what c
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divine plans begin to be put into e
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the first covenant with the Creator
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sacrament of redemption by an indis
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the signs instituted by Christ and
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evealing of the sons of God" (Rom 8
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words which are being considered he
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specific remedy for concupiscence.
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love of Christ and of the Church—
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man in general, for the fundamental
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marriage is juridically contracted
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Ephesians (cf. Eph 5:21-33). The pr
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according to the prophets is not me
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Rereading the language of the body
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of constructing later—in a more a
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4. In this way, in the evangelical
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This discovery—already analyzed o
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2. The term "beloved" indicates wha
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Through this nearness the groom mor
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examine the theme of the language o
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The Language of the Body: Actions a
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Spirit") the mutual attraction of m
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Two significances 6. In this way, t
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stemming from biblical sources. The
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enhances man's dignity and confers
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speak exclusively of birth control.
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and clear the moral principles of a
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dimension—the dimension of the li
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The Encyclical emphasizes clearly e
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3. The use of the infertile periods
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premises that allow us to draw the
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that the mystery of the redemption
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The personal subject, in order to s
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protecting the importance and digni
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negative. But there is also another
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corporeal and emotive subjectivity.
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(or, to use the terminology of the
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This gift involves a profound and u
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time to search again for the answer
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On the subject of John's theology,
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36:25ff.). A similar attitude is re
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xii This formula returns in Ex 3:6;
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Only in the last century was attent
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